On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:52:44AM +0100, Lanoxx wrote: > The discussion of /usr vs. / has also been in debian and the general > consens seemed to be that fedoras use case is not applicable to debian > because it would break compatibility with systems that dont have an > initramfs. It would also be neccessary to move tools such as fsck and > others into initramfs (which fedora will do) as otherwise there wont be > any useable system if /usr is not accesible (because its mounted of > network, or because it has file system errors).
Indeed. > So while I generally like this idea I guess its better to leave things > as they are. IMHO the only thing that might be worth discussing is > whether the distinction of 'bin' and 'sbin' is still valid today since > nowadays they are both in the PATH anyway. So instead of moving > everything to /usr maybe we could merge \each\ of the bin/sbin folders > seperately so that instead of six folders we are only left with /bin, > usr/bin, usr/local/bin. Surely there are better things to spend time on ... this kind of wholesale rearrangement is very time-consuming, has a habit of breaking things we didn't realise had hardcoded paths (sure, they were buggy anyway, but that isn't necessarily a reason to break them), and doesn't provide much real benefit. Better to just leave it be. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss